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Help with WW2 Gunto Mei: Smith and Date


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6 hours ago, Bruce Pennington said:

Dated July 1943 with a faintly struck, double struck, Nagoya stamp.  So, non-traditionally made.

I was trying to see the tiny stamp at the top, but could not quite make it out. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this the original post a tachi-mei, opposite of the oshigata below? 

 

Naga

Mura

Kane

Kiyo

Saku

 

The pic below is an oshigata I found for the same smith.

 

Kanekiyo from NMB.png

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52 minutes ago, Itomagoi said:

Thanks for the very good translation.

You are welcome!

I hope it is a beautiful blade. You may have a hand made blade. Do not confuse with traditional tamahagane, hand-forged and water tempered blade though. Your blade may be hand-worked mill steel that was water or oil quenched. Feel free to post more pics of the blade and mounts.

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